Hawkeye is devastated when he learns that the Army has declared him to be dead and has notified his father back in Maine. Making things worse is a corpsman named Digger is hovering around, waiting for a dead body he can bring back with him before he gets in trouble for losing another body and Hawk cannot call home because of a security ban on outgoing phone calls. frustrated, Hawk decides to leave the Army and declares himself dead, joining Digger aboard his bus for the last round up.